Sorry for the late reply peps. I don't have the net at my pad and surf only at work in the middle of the night.
The Tank Crashed!!!
It never opened and the next afternoon when I woke up everything was slimed. I did four huge (relatively) waterchanges in the course of two and a half days and couldn't get the ammonia under control. Thankfully Chris n Kerry at Fish 4 U were kind enough to give me some space in one of the Bio-cubes for whats left of the rockwork until I can restabilize my tank (i suppose it helps that I'm an employee there). As it stands most of the coral are still closed up (a few zoas and palys are peeking). My little pseudo is still alive thankfully but I lost several hundred dollars in coral so far. The tank was only 8g and such is the way of the nano. I do intend to continue the tank but I'm serously bummed ATM. This really brings to light the delicacy of our enviroments.
What I believe the cause of the crash was a combination of excess luggals (lost count of # of drops) and the fact that I may have missed a few of the nudi carcasses. Normally a bigger system could have handled the toxins of a few of the lil buggers but my nano couldn't take the heat. Right now my tank is re-cycling with the LR rubble in my back chamber and a couple of pieces in the display (it looks sooo empty, its depressing). On the brighter side, if there is one, the crash wiped out any remiants of the GHA I was working against.
If you want to see all the horribleness that resulted in the crash check it out at Fish 4 U. My rockwork is in the bottom row of bio-cubes marked "Recovering Tank". Like I said this is by far not the end of my reefkeeping ways just a minor setback. A special Thanks is extended to Chris and Kerry for all the help they have been in this trying time for me.
I'll repost pics when i get things all back together.
-pinner
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